I’m Still In Love With You

HI 1972, CD £10.57, VINYL £15.12 You Say: “For me, his peak.” Peter Garner, via e-mail His biggest-ever US pop album, reaching Number 4, there isn’t a trace of heartbreak, betrayal or solemnity to be heard on I’m Still… as Green confirmed his arrival as the early ’70s’ freshest soul sex symbol. Again dominated by the songs he writes with producer Mitchell and drummer Al Jackson Jr, the title track, a Number 4 US pop hit, in fact did less well than its predecessor as a single, Look What You Done For Me, from the same songwriting team. Odder still, in the UK neither single climbed higher than 35 as his sales here stalled. But Green’s Love And Happiness, soon to be covered by Graham Central Station, Etta James et al, and Simply Beautiful are lasting delights and Orbison’s Oh, Pretty Woman is given a convincing reinterpretation.